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Hesselbein Christopher Lorenz

Researcher

Chris Hesselbein received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.

He is an ethnographer who studies how knowledge and technology, both digital and more mundane, are co-constructed with conceptions of social order and self-identity.

Chris is particularly interested in exploring how the production and consumption of technoscience inform, and often naturalize/normalize, our understandings of embodiment, materiality, and aesthetics.

Other research projects examine how (expert) knowledge is established as (un)authoritative, and how ‘alternative arti/facts’ are enacted on digital platforms through algorithmic processes.

Career

PhD: Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
MSc: Cultures of Arts, Science, and Technology (CAST), University of Utrecht

Research

Science and Technology Studies

Selected Publications

  • Hesselbein, C. Bory, P. (2025). Infrastructures of Reality: Metaverse Stories, Spaces, Bodies. PoliMI SpringerBriefs. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-97167-9
  • Hesselbein, C., Canali, S., Bory, P. (2024). Six Provocations for Metaverse Datafication: An emergent cultural, technological, and scholarly phenomenon. Information, Communication & Society, 28(5), 778–796. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2433548
  • Canali, S., Hesselbein, C. (2023). “Using and Interpreting FemTech Data: (Self-)Knowledge, Empowerment, and Sovereignty”. In L.A. Balfour (ed.) FemTech: Intersectional Interventions in Women’s Digital Health (pp. 291-319). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5605-0_13
  • Hesselbein, C. (2023). Kickstarting Science? Crowdfunded Research, Public Engagement, and the Participatory Condition. Science as Culture, 23(4), 583-608 https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2023.222274
  • Hesselbein C. (2021), "Walking the Catwalk: From Dressed Body to Dressed Embodiment", Fashion Theory - Journal of Dress Body and Culture, 25, 367-393
  • Green D.N.| Du Puis J.L.| Xepoleas L.M.| Hesselbein C.| Greder K.| Pietsch V.| Getman R.R.| Estrada J.G. (2021), "Fashion Exhibitions as Scholarship: Evaluation Criteria for Peer Review", Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 39, 71-86

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